Tally of U.S. wind & solar rejections hits 735

You won’t read much about this in major media outlets, but nearly every week, local communities across the US are rejecting or restricting solar and wind projects. The latest rejection occurred a few days ago in Center, Nebraska when the Knox County Board of Supervisors voted 6 to 1 to deny a conditional-use permit for a proposed solar project. According to an article by Mark Mahoney of the Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan, the board’s decision “drew applause from most of a nearly full courtroom at the county courthouse.” The denial of the project in Knox County marks the 58th rejection [...]

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Offshore trojan horses

Thanks to tax credits, U.S. taxpayers will cover at least 40% of the costs of constructing the wind farms.

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Don Ritter: The Green New Deal may decide the election — in the Republicans’ favor

Embed from Getty Images Sen. John Fetter­man has in­di­cated that en­ergy would not be in the fore­front of Penn­syl­va­nians’ vot­ing de­ci­sions this year, but he may not be ac­count­ing for its re­la­tion to in­fla­tion. In­fla­tion ranks as cru­cially im­por­tant, a top con­cern of the vot­ing pub­lic in the 2024 elec­tion. While the en­ergy is­sue had a mar­ginal ef­fect in Penn­syl­va­nia’s 2020 elec­tion cy­cle, its con­nec­tion to higher prices could be de­ci­sive in 2024. In the spring, a Com­mon­wealth Foun­da­tion sur­vey of 800 Penn­syl­va­nia reg­is­tered vot­ers found that more than two-thirds named in­fla­tion as an im­ped­i­ment to main­tain­ing their stan­dard of liv­ing. [...]

By |2024-07-30T09:35:59-04:00July 30th, 2024|Comments Off on Don Ritter: The Green New Deal may decide the election — in the Republicans’ favor
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